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    The First Indochina War (generally known as the Indochina War in France, and as the Anti-French Resistance War in Vietnam, and alternatively internationally...
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  • During the Cold War, the Indochina Wars (Vietnamese: Chiến tranh Đông Dương) were a series of wars which were waged in Indochina from 1946 to 1991, by...
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    Third Indochina War was a series of interconnected armed conflicts, mainly among the various communist factions over strategic influence in Indochina after...
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    northern French Indochina. Fighting lasted from 22 to 26 September 1940; the same time as the Battle of South Guangxi in the Sino-Japanese War, which was the...
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    Vietnam War was a conflict in Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia from 1 November 1955 to the fall of Saigon on 30 April 1975. It was the second of the Indochina Wars...
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    Indochina Wars: the first being France's unsuccessful eight-year conflict with the Viet Minh nationalist forces (1946–1954); the second being the war...
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  • This changed the situation in the First Indochina War with the Viet Minh and directly influenced the Vietnam War later on. The Chinese government, under...
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    French Indochina focuses on events influencing the eventual decision for military intervention by the United States in the First Indochina War. In 1947...
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    took back control of French Indochina with the help of the British. An all-out resistance war, known as the First Indochina War, broke out in late 1946 between...
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    is still the official name of the city today. At the end of the First Indochina War, in June 1954, the French Army Groupe Mobile 100 was ordered to fall...
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    a power vacuum in Indochina, as the various political factions scrambled for control. The events leading to the First Indochina War are subject to historical...
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    Pastry War (Spanish: Guerra de los pasteles; French: Guerre des Pâtisseries), also known as the first French intervention in Mexico or the first Franco-Mexican...
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    1940—1946 in French Indochina focuses on events that happened in French Indochina during and after World War II and which influenced the eventual decision...
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    Thailand and Vichy France over certain areas of French Indochina. Negotiations shortly before World War II had shown that the French government was willing...
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    (Saigon), Vietnam. It contains exhibits relating to the First Indochina War and the Vietnam War. Operated by the Ho Chi Minh City government, an earlier...
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    troops first entered parts of Indochina in September 1940, and by July 1941 Japan had extended its control over the whole of French Indochina. The United...
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    in World War II than in World War I, however, participated in the Norwegian, Syrian and North African campaigns. During the First Indochina War (1946–1954)...
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    1945, towards the end of World War II. With Japanese forces losing the war and the threat of an Allied invasion of Indochina imminent, the Japanese were...
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    The First Carnatic War (1740–1748) was the Indian theatre of the War of the Austrian Succession and the first of a series of Carnatic Wars that established...
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  • guerrilla forces in the First Indochina War against France's colonial rule, and the indecisive conclusion of the Korean War. However, Stalin and Mao's...
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    Government of Vietnam from 5 June 1948 to 20 June 1949, during the First Indochina War. On 1 April 1947, he was promoted to brigadier general (two-star...
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    authority. Many Algerian soldiers who served for the French Army in the First Indochina War had strong sympathy for the Vietnamese fighting against France and...
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  • Many of the authors that served in various real-life wars (and survived) wrote stories that are at least somewhat based on their own experiences. Some...
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    warfare in the 20th century. After World War II, France returned to reclaim colonial power in the First Indochina War, from which Vietnam emerged victorious...
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    Nguyễn Hữu An (category North Vietnamese military personnel of the Vietnam War)
    He joined the People's Army of Vietnam in September 1945. In the First Indochina War, An took part in several decisive battles. He participated in the...
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    The Winter War was a war between the Soviet Union and Finland. It began with a Soviet invasion of Finland on 30 November 1939, three months after the...
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    American, French, and Japanese weapons from World War II and the First Indochina War (aka French Indochina War), were largely armed and supplied by the People's...
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    The First Chechen War, also referred to as the First Russo-Chechen War, was a struggle for independence waged by the Chechen Republic of Ichkeria against...
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    Napalm (category World War II weapons)
    in World War II in the incendiary attacks on Japanese cities in 1945. It was used also for close air support roles in the First Indochina War, the Algerian...
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    Fusiliers marins (category Military units and formations of France in World War I)
    fusilier marin during the First Indochina War Actor Alain Delon served as a fusilier marin during the First Indochina War. FORFUSCO Commandos Marine...
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